Well, it's stopped raining just long enough to give me false hope that we'll have some nice weather. It'll start pissing down rain again in a few hours and screw up all of my plans for tomorrow. Thankfully we have playoff basketball to keep me entertained while I'm stuck inside this weekend!

Worst of the Night in Pictures:

This man hit a higher percentage of free throws than LeBron last night

Kevin and Russell practice their dance moves for later that night at the club

All The Friday Games: (all times Eastern)Celtics at Heat - ESPN, 7:00pmCeltics lead series 2-0No NBA team has ever rallied back from a 0-3 deficit in the playoffs. So, uh, yeah, no pressure or anything in this game, Miami.

Mavericks at Spurs - ESPN, 9:30pmSeries tied 1-1Tim Duncan turns 34 this weekend. Think about that for a second. He's been in the league for a long ass time now and looked as stiff as Greg Ostertag down the stretch in the regular season. And then the playoffs come and he looks like he just turned back the clock five years. Unbelievable. Appreciate this guy's game while you still can, folks.

Nuggets at Jazz - ESPN2, 10:30pmSeries tied 1-1Oh, how I hope we don't see another 67-foul affair like the last game in this series. Yeah, rules are rules, but come on, refs. Nobody wants to watch a free throw shooting exhibition. Well, nobody that I know at least. I'm sure there's some sick bastard out there who enjoys watching endless free throws and three hour games, but that's definately the minority.

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All The Saturday Games:Magic at Bobcats - TNT, 2:00pmMagic lead series 2-0Is this series over yet? Honestly. I'm having a lot of trouble finding even one compelling thing about this series. (You know, aside from goofy Stan Van Gundy pictures and the ever-present potential for Vag Carter to do or say something stupid)

Suns at Frail Blazers - TNT, 4:30pmSuns lead series 2-1Call me crazy, but I don't see Jason Richardson raining threes all over the Blazers for consecutive games. Just a hunch.

Hawks at Bucks - ESPN, 7:00pmHawks lead series 2-0Toward the end of the regular season, I was excited about the possibilities of the Bucks making the early rounds of the Eastern Conference playoffs interesting. Then Bogut jacked up his arm and all of those hopes went to Hell in a handbasket. Can I just pretend this series isn't even happening? It's roughly as compelling as the Magic/Bobcats series.

Lakers at Thunder - ESPN, 9:30pmLakers lead series 2-1Thursday night, I was exhausted thanks to my lingering sinus infection, so after I got stomach-punched by the Senators beating the Penguins in triple-overtime, I went to bed and missed the end of the Lakers/Thunder game. I would like to nominate myself for a WOTN for that. Here's to hoping for an exciting Game 4 that I actually get to watch!

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All The Sunday Games:Celtics at Heat - ABC, 1:00pmCeltics lead series 2-1 (as of Friday)

Crabs at Bulls - ABC, 3:30pmCrabs lead series 2-1This series has really turned out to be a fair bit more interesting than I anticipated. Who knew Kirk Hinrich would be a factor? Kirk freaking Hinrich...

I saw that play and thought the call was totally reasonable. Rondo cut across Wade's path and then slowed down. It was basically a moving screen (I don't know if that's the foul they call, but it's the same effect). I've seen the same call made before, so at least they are consistent on it.

Also jumping the gun here, but could Dirk become the only MVP to lose in the first round as both a 1st and 2nd seed? I know he's the only player you can handcheck above the FT line, he's averaging like 35/8 or whatever, his team mates fucked the dog in game 3, and the Spurs are only a 7 seed because the West is so crazy and they had injuries and stuff but...just sayin'. For some reason I can't even think of any 2 seeds losing to 7 seeds even though it must have happened a couple times, right?

DKH: Maybe you're right. But on the replay as I remember it seemed like Wade sped up on purpose once he saw Rondo in front of him. The entire thing just looked silly.

80's NBA - The person yelling that is probably KG. I remember a Magic game from earlier this year where the camera was a little too close to the Celtics bench on a time out and caught KG yelling "WE GONNA KILL THESE NIGGAS" a few times.

As a Nuggets fan, I'd like someone direct me to the nearest time machine, so that I may transport to the year 3000 and find one of those 25 cent suicide booths like in Futurama. Thanks.

Oh well, at least I get to console myself with the Broncos latest draft, which included a QB that has all the skills and intangibles you'd want in a football player, except for those that might actually make him successful as a pro.

Thunder are totally pwning the Lakers right now at the half. I love it.

Fastbreak points - 14 to 2Free throws - 19 to 3Rebounds - 28 to 21

Basically, they are running into the paint and either scoring or drawing fouls and getting the points there. If they win this game, I'll take the Thunder to win it in 6. Even if they don't win, they've basically given every team in the playoffs the blueprint to beating the Lakers. Converge on the ball (because they won't hit the outside shots), and then run like hell.

Anonymous -- As a Celtics fan, I wish I could claim it was an intentional reverse stat curse. However, it's more that my finger went about a half inch too far up the number pad on my keboard. I cannot use my stat curse powers for good, only for evil. :(

It took me 20 hours, but I've finally come up with a positive spin on this.

Game 1 was the Suns with winners guilt. Game plan adjusted for game 2, all was good.

Game 4 was a mis-plan because no one expected Roy. Game 5, at home, Suns need to show smart adjustment again and destroy Portland by double digits. Dudley and Hill need to rotate on Roy and give Dragic more minutes, and keep the ballhandling out of Barbosa's hands because honestly damn.

Also, watching STAT battle Aldridge is so unintentionally funny. WHO WILL GET LESS DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS? WHO WILL SHOOT MORE ILL-ADVISED JUMPERS? PORTLAND PHOENIX!

Boston's Big Three Bawfulness summary on Crunch Time: Ray Allen missed THREE STRAIGHT free throws during crunch time. Kevin Garnett followed suit with two bricked freebies of his own, and with his team down 6 with about 40 seconds left, Paul Pierce took a pull-up three on the break, which he missed too. Way to lead the team eh?

Sometimes I wonder just how "unintentional" all these dirty quotes are. Is it our dirty minds or theirs? Is the NBA really a vast homoerotic fraternity that pretends to be otherwise, like the priesthood?

In a coincidence to coincidental to be mere coincidence, the WV was exten.

If someone had told me that Creaky Knees Duncan and Ginosebleed would combine to shoot 5-25 with the Frenchman only adding ten for the Spurs... And that they would win... I would probably have laughed in their face.